intuition

See also: Intuition and intuïtion

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (a looking at, immediate cognition), from Latin intueor (to look at, consider), from in- (in, on) + tueor (to look, watch, guard, see, observe).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪntjuːˈɪʃən/, /ˌɪntʃuː-/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɪntuˈɪʃən/
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Noun

intuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)

  1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:
      The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
      intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions
      about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure.
      The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
      ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the
      well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
      ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
      not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
  2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Usage notes

The term has been used with at least the following adjectives: artistic, emotional, linguistic, medical, mental, moral, physical and spiritual.

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Translations

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Danish

Noun

intuition c (singular definite intuitionen, plural indefinite intuitioner)

  1. intuition

Declension

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Finnish

Noun

intuition

  1. genitive singular of intuitio

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intuītiōnem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɥi.sjɔ̃/
  • (file)

Noun

intuition f (plural intuitions)

  1. (uncountable, philosophy) intuition (cognitive faculty)
  2. (countable) intuition, hunch
  3. premonition

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

intuition c

  1. intuition

Declension

Declension of intuition 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative intuition intuitionen intuitioner intuitionerna
Genitive intuitions intuitionens intuitioners intuitionernas

References

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